There. Old. I said it. This video is over a year old. You may have already seen it before. Imagine that! Someone being brazen enough to believe that something on the internet isn’t immediately rendered worthless the day after it came into being. You might as well take me out back and shoot me in the head: I’m useless to you now. I’ve broken The Rule.

This is Game Gun. A piece of technology almost as incredible as its promotional videos.

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More here. Sort of. They can make a Game Gun, but they can’t make a website, apparently. It’s unclear whether Game Gun actually exists as purchasable item now, given the last apparent update was last November. But if you want to gamble $250 on it being real, be my guest.

Get me one that works well with the PCGamerBikeMini and I’d be set for a pretty darn immersive FPS experience. Unfortunately, I’m pretty sure the GameGun relies 100% on actually turning your body to turn the view in the FPS, and that wouldn’t work when you’re trying to work an elliptical bike.

The order page, last updated November 2009, has a comment saying that when you put in an order, you’re pre-ordering for the first market quarter. Of 2010. Seeing how they haven’t changed that comment, I’m guessing none of the orders went through and that you should avoid buying.

You know, if instead of an LCD screen, you used 3D LCD glasses, this would be a pretty badass VR setup. Gimmicky as hell, sure, but if you can make it with off the shelf parts and keep the price under 500 or so, it would have a market.

That’s because you’re looking at an immobile screen which you control the view of using a mouse in your hand. The whole point of stuff like this is that to look up, you look up, to look down, you look down.

I use invert look in every game I can (to the point where I can’t play games which don’t offer it) but given 5 seconds of thought it’s pretty obvious how that’s not an issue with something like this.

This is hilarious, this is cocking about at its finest. I don’t care if I’d never buy one personally, I love knowing this can exist. If I was going to try marketing this commercially, I think a great place to push it would be video game rental shops. Rent a half dozen for a party? Hell yeah, mega-nerd-fun. Technology like this also looks like the sort of thing that could revive the arcade market. Too bulky and specialized for most homeowners, but novel and tactile enough to get people into a venue.

It needs a few modifications at the expense of needing drivers for it to enable extra features.

Force feedback.
Gun mounted speakers to emit isolated weapon sounds.
Optional weights to simulate real gun.
Replace the gyroscope with a camera and play facing a static portion of your room. Using software, the camera can track movements made by the gun in reference to the static view.

what if this whole PC was small enough to be contained in the “gun” and it had a LIDAR scanner/CCD/IR camera in the front and instead of showing you a game it put baddies over your surroundings for you to shoot?

Like some sort of augmented reality Q-ZAR. I know the tech is unfeasible at the moment…but the future seems like it will be fun.